J R Young Quotes

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

Most of you are so young you dont know who I am, and thats good.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

I've always thought young.

People used to always talk down to me, like, "Oh, you're so young," but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there's a lot more I can do.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

To be young is the only religion.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.